Easton's Bible Dictionary

SYRIAC (2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Daniel 2:4), more correctly rendered “Aramaic,” including both the Syriac and the Chaldee lang ...

T TAANACH a sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 mile ...

(4.) The sacred tent (Hebrews mishkan, “the dwelling-place”); the movable tent-temple which Moses erected for the service of God ...

Internally it was divided by a veil into two chambers, the exterior of which was called the holy place, also “the sanctuary” (He ...

Round about the tabernacle was a court, enclosed by curtains hung upon sixty pillars (Exodus 27:9-18). This court was 150 feet l ...

out into the camp when the Israelites were at war with the Philistines, was taken by the enemy (1 Samuel 4), and was never after ...

TABITHA (in Greek called Dorcas), gazelle, a disciple at Joppa. She was distinguished for her alms-deeds and good works. Peter, ...

(Hebrews topheth) “tabret” should be, as in the Revised Version, “an open abhorring” (marg., “one in whose face they spit;” lit. ...

fugitives assembled on the platform, and here Nebuchadnezzar spread his royal pavilion” (R.V., “brickwork”). TAHPENES the wife ...

TALMON oppressed. (1.) A Levite porter (1 Chronicles 9:17; Nehemiah 11:19). (2.) One whose descendants returned with Zerubbabe ...

TANHUMETH consolation, a Netophathite; one of the captains who supported Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8). TANIS (Ezekie ...

colony, and was the farthest western harbour of Tyrian sailors. It was to this port Jonah’s ship was about to sail from Joppa. I ...

to the city. At this point three roads run into the Via Appia, that from Tusculum, that from Alba Longa, and that from Antium; s ...

Judges 6:11, 19; Isaiah 1:29, etc. In Isaiah 61:3 it is rendered in the plural “trees;” Hos. 4:13, “elm” (R.V., “terebinth”). Ho ...

TEL-HARESHA hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some captive Jews returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61). ...

36:17); “the mountain of the Lord’s house” (Isaiah 2:2); “our holy and our beautiful house” (64:11); “the holy mount” (27:13); “ ...

There can be no doubt that the stone thus discovered was one of those originally placed on the boundary wall which separated the ...

Isaac (Genesis 22:1-14). In the beginning of his reign Solomon set about giving effect to the desire that had been so earnestly ...

admiration at the vastness of the blocks and the general excellence of the workmanship.” At length, in the autumn of the elevent ...

on the southern, western, and northern sides (1 Kings 6:5-10). These formed a part of the building. Round about the building wer ...